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Saturday, January 12, 2013

Co-Founder of Reddit, Aaron Swartz commits suicide

"Swartz was indicted in July 2011 by a federal grand jury for allegedly mass downloading documents from the JSTOR online journal archive with the intent to distribute them. He subsequently moved to Brooklyn, New York, where he then worked for Avaaz Foundation, a nonprofit “global web movement to bring people-powered politics to decision-making everywhere.” Swartz appeared in court on Sept. 24, 2012 and pleaded not guilty.

The accomplished Swartz co-authored the now widely-used RSS 1.0 specification at age 14,was one of the three co-owners of the popular social news site Reddit,and completed a fellowship at Harvard’s Ethics Center Lab on Institutional Corruption. In 2010, he foundedDemandProgress.org, a “campaign against the Internet censorship bills SOPA/PIPA.”"